Korun: The Knife in the Tankard
(2026)(The first book in the Korun: Blood and Tavern Smoke series)
A Story by Charles Eugene Anderson
One drink. One debt. One knife in the tankard.
Korun came to the Hanged Mule looking for ale, meat, and shelter from the rain.
Instead, he finds a black stiletto waiting at the bottom of his tankard—and an old debt buried beneath the tavern floor.
The knife has chosen him.
Now the doors are barred. Something below is knocking. And every frightened soul in the room knows the rule no one will say aloud:
One drink. One debt. One door.
To survive the night, Korun must take up the blade and face whatever waits beneath the Hanged Mule.
Genre: Fantasy
Korun came to the Hanged Mule looking for ale, meat, and shelter from the rain.
Instead, he finds a black stiletto waiting at the bottom of his tankard—and an old debt buried beneath the tavern floor.
The knife has chosen him.
Now the doors are barred. Something below is knocking. And every frightened soul in the room knows the rule no one will say aloud:
One drink. One debt. One door.
To survive the night, Korun must take up the blade and face whatever waits beneath the Hanged Mule.
Genre: Fantasy
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